The Bookseller – News – PRH unaware of AI-generated images used to promote Jodi Picoult’s new novel

Penguin Random Home (PRH) has mentioned that it didn’t have prior information of AI-generated pictures being utilized by a artistic company to advertise Jodi Picoult’s new novel on posters and social media.

A distorted poster for the UK version of By Any Different Identify (Michael Joseph), that includes a lady writing, demonstrated among the typical indicators of AI-generated pictures, the Occasions newspaper reported. 

“AI was used with out our information,” defined Laura Gross, Picoult’s agent. “Clearly, Jodi and I are extraordinarily dismayed to find this truth.”

In an announcement despatched to The Bookseller, the writer mentioned that this “piece of selling materials was created by an exterior artistic company”. 

It added: “It transpires that AI was used with out our, or subsequently the writer’s, information.”

The writer is already suing OpenAI, the corporate behind ChatGPT, for utilizing her writing to coach the expertise device.